Creative Community Bulletin 11 December 2013

Great con­tent found by Pariah and shared to the design and cre­ative com­mu­ni­ties on social media.

  • Reading Made Awesome: The Features of Ebook Apps You Should Be Using
    “Reading books on tablets or phones is awe­some. There, I said it and I’m not tak­ing it back. While the biggest advan­tage of read­ing on a mobile device is con­ve­nience and a huge portable library, there are a ton of fea­tures that make the experie…
  • The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer’s Guide To Character Expression
    One of the biggest prob­lem areas for writ­ers is con­vey­ing a char­ac­ter’s emo­tions to the read­er in a unique, com­pelling way. This book comes to the res­cue by high­light­ing 75 emo­tions and list­ing the pos­si­ble body lan­guage cues, thoughts, and vis…
  • The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer’s Guide To Character Expression
    One of the biggest prob­lem areas for writ­ers is con­vey­ing a char­ac­ter’s emo­tions to the read­er in a unique, com­pelling way. This book comes to the res­cue by high­light­ing 75 emo­tions and list­ing the pos­si­ble body lan­guage cues, thoughts, and vis…
  • Amazon MatchBook Seems To Be A Mismatch
    “Now you can buy Kindle ver­sions of pre­vi­ous­ly pur­chased books from Amazon at dis­count­ed rates. But the new pro­gram may have some gaps in the collection.”
  • Subcompact Publishing — A Year Later

    Now — open the sky and dump down upon that table all the dig­i­tal pub­lish­ing tools we have. Let rain down the infra­struc­ture and typog­ra­phy, the plat­forms and devices. Separate them into their small­est com­po­nents. Spread them out evenly.

  • eCanCrusher: Drag-n-Drop Utility Converts EPUB Folder to .EPUB File and Vice Versa
    “eCanCrusher is a sim­ple drag/drop util­i­ty to con­vert an EPUB folder/directory struc­ture into an .epub file and vice versa.”
  • How Social Analytics Goes Beyond Marketing To Save Lives
    “New Poptip social tool can ana­lyze break­ing events and sto­ry evo­lu­tion to help media and first respon­ders track emer­gen­cies on Twitter.”
  • One Year Later, The Most Promising iPad Magazine Looks Back (And Forward)
    Like a lot of tech­nol­o­gy projects, The Magazine start­ed out as an exper­i­ment: could a well-executed dig­i­tal mag­a­zine attract enough pay­ing read­ers to exist as a busi­ness? A year lat­er, we spoke to its edi­tor and own­er to find out.
  • Read it Like Television–An Idea to Make Novels More Like TV

    What if I were to tell you nov­els were going the way of tele­vi­sion? You’d prob­a­bly tell me you know that already. Less peo­ple are read­ing, more are watch­ing TV. I’m not sure that’s true, though. People read. They want to read. They just need a bet­ter way of doing it in most cas­es. So, I want to make nov­els more like television.

  • Gale Launches New Purchase Model for Ebooks #eprd­ctn
    “Gale, part of Cengage Learning and a pub­lish­er of research and ref­er­ence resources for libraries, schools and busi­ness­es, announced a new pur­chase option – a Usage-Driven Acquisition (UDA) mod­el – for its Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) …
  • Reading with iOS 101, a Reading App Guide – Revisited

    ” Today I’m revis­it­ing the major read­ing apps for the iPad, iPad Mini, iPhone and iTouch. Because of the preva­lence of the iPhone and iTouch devices, all the images here are from the iPhone/iTouch except for the Marvin read­ing app which is designed for iPad and iPad Mini devices only.”